10-letter words containing m, i, s, a, r, n
- mishearing — Present participle of mishear.
- mismanager — One who mismanages.
- mismanners — bad manners
- misreading — Present participle of misread.
- missionary — a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
- missourian — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mistrayned — deluded or incorrectly trained
- miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
- monarchies — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- monarchism — the principles of monarchy.
- monarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- monetarism — a doctrine holding that changes in the money supply determine the direction of a nation's economy.
- monetarist — a doctrine holding that changes in the money supply determine the direction of a nation's economy.
- moralising — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- mortal sin — a willfully committed, serious transgression against the law of God, depriving the soul of divine grace.
- morticians — Plural form of mortician.
- mousterian — of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- muscarinic — of or relating to muscarine.
- musicianer — (slang) musician.
- narcissism — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- nasturtium — any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers.
- naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- neorealism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of various movements in literature, art, etc., that are considered as a return to a more realistic style.
- neurinomas — Plural form of neurinoma.
- neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- nightmares — Plural form of nightmare.
- noisemaker — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- normalcies — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- normalised — normalisation
- normaliser — Alternative spelling of normalizer.
- normalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of normalize.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- organicism — Philosophy. the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong. Compare holism (def 1).
- organismal — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- organismic — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- rachmanism — extortion or exploitation by a landlord of tenants of dilapidated or slum property, esp when involving intimidation or use of racial fears to drive out sitting tenants whose rent is fixed at a low rate
- randomwise — in a random manner